by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
One of the Essential Fluencies of learning, Collaboration Fluency, is the essence of the modern classroom and the modern workforce. Building collaborative student groups in the best ways is something you and your learners can benefit from together. It’s about much...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Teaching
What are the qualities that make up exceptional teaching? Admittedly it’s a topic that is open to many points of view. You can certainly borrow from the wisdom of others to formulate a picture of your own. For example, the art of teaching, said Mark Van Doren,...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Assessment
Ed note: This is an updated version of our original article on best self-assessment practices. How do we begin encouraging the best self-assessment practices for benefitting our learners? Perhaps we’re beginning with the wrong question. Instead, we should begin by...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Technology
As the world has become interconnected through the World Wide Web, it is necessary to include technology in your school curriculum that takes advantage of collaboration, media, information, and creativity to generate solutions. Enter ed-tech—the wonderful world of...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Media Fluency
Having good digital literacy skills just makes sense in a digital world. The messages we create and consume, along with the information we generate and absorb daily, all require digital literacy skills to some degree. So if you’re new to them, this infographic from...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Blended Learning
It’s a fascinatingly complex digital student that attends today’s classrooms. Because of this, new instructional methods that meet their needs and expectations have been integrated into global classrooms with much success. One of these popular methods is using blended...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Classroom Management
The active learning classroom is alive with creativity, focus, and the desire to learn. In fact, there’s no classroom quite like it. You know one as soon as you walk into it because it doesn’t look or feel like a traditional classroom. That’s because the active...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
How would you help students to enhance their collaborative studying strategies? Research shows that, on average, college students have more experience meeting in groups. We know that their expertise can help younger students, however. Further, we can take a page from...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Classroom Management
Turning around challenging student behaviour is about approaching any such situation with empathy and constructive attitudes. If you’ve taught in a classroom, you know this behaviour when you see it. It can be the bane of any teacher as well as a sign of despair...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Student Engagement
Getting our learners to begin thinking independently is one of the many goals of education. “Teach students so that they don’t need the teacher.” But what if that wasn’t the case? What if there were something higher than independence? After all, Stephen Covey reminds...
